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Chris Olsen's first contribution to the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan was a wax bedbug, 15,000 times life size. When a vacancy occurred in the Living Invertebrates Department in 1916 Chris Olsen was given a regular job, added submarine painting to his sculpture and magnification. Last week when the Museum gave an exhibition of art works by staff members the public had a chance to see Chris Olsen's latest paintings...
...vampire in his grave is to bury him face down with an oak stake through his heart while a priest reads the Lord's Prayer backward. Devoutly French politicians wished it were as easy to keep Alexandre ("Sacha") Stavisky in his grave. On the boulevards Alexandre Stavisky, in wax, shared honors with the original tub in which Marat was stabbed, star exhibits in the venerable Musee Grevin...
Sooner or later all European authors of note visit America, then return home and wax literary about what they have seen. Mr. Lennox Robinson is no exception and the dramatic fruits of his trip to these shores is being presented this week by the Harvard Dramatic Club in Brattle Hall in a play called "Ever the Twain...
...Roman Catholic church in Queens Village, N. Y. one night last week twinkled 1,000 wax tapers, clutched by 500 devout Catholic husbands, 500 devout Catholic wives. In solemn unison 1,000 lips moved over the words...
...bricks with air drills and then to replace defective material with a substance of an improved type. The new material is believed to be a mortar mixed with paraffin which is placed in the cracks and then heat applied by coal burners in an effort to melt the wax which, they hope, will then spread around the bricks and form a protective film against the driving of the rains...